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Moscow hopes the UN Security Council will agree a resolution this week to support a deal for Syria to abandon its chemical arms, but talks with the United States have been rocky, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday.

U.N. chemical weapons investigators are expected to return to Syria on Wednesday to continue investigating allegations of chemical weapons use there, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday.

The Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in Ankara, Talal Jamil Al-Oubadi presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Turkey, Abdullah Gul. A statement by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry cited “After the presentation ceremony, the Turkish President in the presence of his Senior Adviser for Middle East …

Turkey has spent $2 billion for the maintenance of Syrian refugees living in the country, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu met with members of the Syrian community in the United States on Saturday as part of talks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The delegation representing the Syrian community in the US conveyed their thanks to Turkey for its …

A mortar round hit the Russian embassy compound in Damascus yesterday, injuring three, as Moscow accused Washington of blackmailing it to win a tough UN resolution on Syria’s chemical weapons.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late on Thursday that the content of a one-year mandate allowing Turkey to carry out military operations in foreign countries to be renewed in Parliament on Oct. 4 might remain the same but could also contain changes.

The United States said Thursday that comments by Iranian President Hassan Rowhani had opened up a possible new path for diplomacy, and urged Tehran to engage “substantively” with the West.

A Turkish delegation led by President Abdullah Gul has been preparing to leave for New York on Sept. 20 for next week’s UN General Assembly, which will provide an opportunity for Turkish diplomats to bring regional issues, particularly Syria, to the world’s agenda in a bid to stop the violence …

 Commenting on the capture of the northern Syrian town of Azaz by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said Turkey has repeatedly warned international powers that the unsolved Syrian crisis would breed instability and terrorism in the war-torn country.